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Title details for The Silent War by Ben Bova - Available

The Silent War

Asteroid Wars Series, Book 3

#3 in series

by Ben Bova
Amanda Karr
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Ben Bova's The Silent War is the breakneck continuation to The Asteroid Wars series that can end only in earth's salvation—or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.
When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources of the Asteroid Belt itself. Fighting escalates and the lines between commerce and politics, boardroom and bedroom, blur—and the keys to victory will include physics, nanotechnology, and cold hard cash.
It's a breakneck finale that can end only in earth's salvation—or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.

  • Creators

  • Series

    The Grand Tour

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 16, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781593976538
      • File size: 369607 KB
      • Duration: 12:50:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 26, 2004
      With its macho posturing and stereotypical characters, including devious Japanese, Hugo-winner Bova's third book in his Asteroid Wars trilogy (after 2002's The Rock Rats
      and 2001's The Precipice
      ) could just as well have been written in the 1950s as today. Megalomaniac entrepreneur Martin Humphries of Humphries Space Systems has much to be pleased about on both the business and personal level: he has survived his battle with Astro Corporation's Dan Randolph and the luscious Amanda has divorced asteroid prospector Lars Fuchs to marry him. Then the Yamagata Corporation, a new player in the economy of asteroid mining, plunges the two companies into a bloody space-war and consolidates their assets in the power vacuum while Fuchs seeks vengeance on Humphries. The framing story, about an alien artifact that is both salvation and punishment for Humphries, puts a thick icing of morality on top of a series of predictable cliffhanger episodes involving violence, suffering and death. Short chapters, expository lumps and multiple, rapidly shifting perspectives on the action make for a jerky read. Agent, Barbara Bova.

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